Wildfires are raging in France, and 1,600 square kilometers of land are being burned. About 220,000 people, including holidaymakers and local residents, have been evacuated urgently. On July 27, French President Emmanuel Macron said in Gironde province, the region hardest hit by wildfires in the southwest, that France is facing an unprecedented wildfire crisis. This is France's “most difficult situation since World War II.” He warned that as temperatures rise again, strong winds, and the rare threat of “pyrocumulus clouds,” it is very easy for wildfires to spread again. “Pyrocumulus” is a phenomenon caused by high temperatures — during volcanic eruptions, forest fires, etc., strong heat flows rise rapidly in a relatively small area, thus forming thick cumulonimbus clouds.

Wildfires are raging in France, and 1,600 square kilometers of land are being burned. About 220,000 people, including holidaymakers and local residents, have been evacuated urgently. On July 27, French President Emmanuel Macron said in Gironde province, the region hardest hit by wildfires in the southwest, that France is facing an unprecedented wildfire crisis. This is France's “most difficult situation since World War II.” He warned that as temperatures rise again, strong winds, and the rare threat of “pyrocumulus clouds,” it is very easy for wildfires to spread again. “Pyrocumulus” is a phenomenon caused by high temperatures — during volcanic eruptions, forest fires, etc., strong heat flows rise rapidly in a relatively small area, thus forming thick cumulonimbus clouds.